One of the most notable social phenomena in China is the large urban-rural disparity. There are many studies of it, but … and rural households in China from 1988 to 2002. Our results suggest that low quantiles are associated with large …

Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state … investigate the impact of the parents’ job loss on the health of their children, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition … Survey covering the period from 1991 to 2006. We find that paternal job loss has a significant negative effect on children …

use the Chinese Household Income Project dataset and the Rural to Urban Migration in China dataset to construct a unique …

investigate the impact of parental job loss on their children's health, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey …Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to …

The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data …

Rural-urban migrants in China appear to prefer nearby destination cities. To gain a better understanding of this …. Using recent survey data, we first estimate an individual's expected income in each potential destination city using a semi … migrants in China based on their migration destination choices. Our baseline estimates suggest that to induce a migrant to move …

This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment – the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China … after China's accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether trade liberalization affects the incidence of … child labor in China. PNTR permanently set U.S. duties on Chinese imports at low Normal Trade Relations (NTR) levels and …

this hypothesis using data on temporary rural-urban migrants in China. The size of a migrant's social-family network is …